Friday, November 27, 2015

Seeing as Christmas and shopping is all that on our minds right now, let's take a look at the specials offered 36 years ago with the Beno's Toy flyer.I've never heard of this California based chain but I sure recognize the toys like Kenner Star Wars, Play-Doh and a metric ton of classic hand held electronic games!

Friday, November 20, 2015

Episode 37 is
our first "lost episode" as we had to re-record half of it after a
computer glitch (sorry), so we know it's not October. This one has J & B
discussing all things Godzilla and his Toho pals, something we're both fans of.

Subjects
include our highlights (and lowlights) of his film series, the Hanna Barbera
cartoon series, the Marvel comic and of course the many, many awesome toys that
take money from (mostly Brian's) our wallets. Sidetrack conversations include
Majin monster of Terror, Rack Toys, Johnny Yuma, Ultraman, Rodan, Psychotronic magazine and the Big
Bopper.....

We also want to keep the
conversation going on the Pod Stallions Facebook page, please drop a line as to
your favourite Godzilla movie and toys. We anxiously await your thoughts.Download the Show Here

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Earth Quake Tower has been mentioned before but it's a toy so of it's era and amazing I wanted to bringing it up again. An Irwin Allen movie for the toybox, there is no way in hell this would fly today and $17? What a bargain!

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

I'm mildly smitten with this Pizza Hut merchandise like the oven but also the cardboard Hut. Although a more accurate representation of that pizza hut play set today is to paint the roof and write "Chinese Buffet" on the top.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Hey remember those big colouring books you got on birthdays and Christmas? They were done by a company called Parkes Run and they made a lot of cool licensed stuff using licenses like Superman the movie, Popeye, Peanuts and the Marvel comics characters!Adult Colouring books are the all rage right now but I'd settle for this one, which was given to me by my aunt Cathy in 1978!

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

As readers of this blog know, I have a fondness for comic multi packs especially the Whitman ones for things like Micronauts or the Shogun Warriors.That's why this 1981 ad from coluring book publisher Parkes Run (more on them later this week) intrigues me.

It seems that 1981, Marvel dumped Whitman in favour of Parkes Run and the format changed from 3 comics to 2, thanks inflation!

As a side note, my dad knew a distributor of these back in the early 1980s. I remember seeing a whole skid of these two packs in his warehouse. The man said to me "take as many comics as you want!" but my dad's face suggested that I should probably be happy with one.....

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Oh happy day.Series Creator and former star Joel Hodgson is campaigning on KickStarter to create a whole new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 right now.As I've mentioned here more than once, I'm a giant fan of MST3K in all it's incarnations and it runs in the background constantly here. It kept me from madness while creating "Rack Toys" and it's inspired me to try harder when writing.There is already 1,000 backers on this thing and it's not even a day old, so i'm not alone.You can visit the campaign here and it's ever made you laugh please back it.

The Police Headquarters was not only my first Lego set but the toy designated to stay at my Grandmother's house for when i visited. I had a million fun hours with that thing and even though my kids look at the blank faced figures like they're caveman tools, so did they.